As you know I didn't like Color's launch a week ago. I thought the app just wasn't very good. Turns out I wasn't the only one. It still has a two-star review on iTunes. It got an incredible amount of coverage in the press for a new startup, including multiple plays on CNN and lots of other places.

The funding of $41 million also caused a LOT of people in Silicon Valley to ask "huh?"

These two things made me incredibly interested in Color. I kept using their app during the past week. My experiences on that in a second.

But yesterday I visited the company at 215 Hamilton Ave., in downtown Palo Alto. Interesting, I used to work in that building upstairs back in the 1990s.